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The Effects of Health Threat Seriousness and Personal Efficacy upon Intentions and Behavior1
- Source :
- Journal of Applied Social Psychology. 11:401-415
- Publication Year :
- 1981
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 1981.
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Abstract
- Eighty dental patients were pretested with a scale measuring health locus of control and then exposed to a persuasive communication designed to manipulate their beliefs about the seriousness of periodontal disease and their susceptibility to it. The high seriousness condition increased feelings of fear, concern, and threat as well as intentions and reported compliance with recommended oral hygiene procedures. However, patient's perceived personal efficacy in performing the recommended behavior was the most important predictor of subsequent behavior. The implications of the results for Roger's protection motivation theory are discussed.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Persuasive communication
Social Psychology
business.industry
media_common.quotation_subject
Oral hygiene
Compliance (psychology)
Locus of control
Feeling
Protection motivation theory
Scale (social sciences)
medicine
business
Psychiatry
Psychology
Social psychology
Seriousness
media_common
Clinical psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15591816 and 00219029
- Volume :
- 11
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Applied Social Psychology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........f49c28c53232fd432ffa9d152d91c078